On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:31:27PM -0400, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote a message of 94 lines which said:
I note that Google's DNS servers, which my router seems to be pointed at, seem to be authoritative for *everything*;
This is not what I see: % dig @8.8.8.8 A ebay.com ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 A ebay.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28045 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ebay.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: ebay.com. 1531 IN A 66.211.160.87 ebay.com. 1531 IN A 66.211.160.88 ebay.com. 1531 IN A 66.135.205.13 ebay.com. 1531 IN A 66.135.205.14 ;; Query time: 45 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Mon Oct 1 21:49:25 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101 No AA in the flags.